The Euro­pean Screen­writ­ers’ City organ­ised a “Screen­writ­ing Cam­pus” day at UTC on April 24, 2025. On this occa­sion, five pro­fes­sion­al screen­writ­ers led writ­ing work­shops for stu­dents. This was the fourth edi­tion of the Screen­writ­ing Cam­pus, whose patron is none oth­er than Louise Cour­voisi­er, win­ner of the 2025 César Award for Best First Film for Vingt Dieux.

The high­light of the day was an incred­i­ble mas­ter­class lec­ture giv­en by direc­tor and screen­writer Louise Cour­voisi­er, who shared her career jour­ney and the sto­ry behind the writ­ing of her film Vingt Dieux, which has just received the César Award for Best First Film. In addi­tion, screen­writ­ers Car­o­line Torel­li, Alpha Dial­lo, Pierre-Yves Denon­foux and Leslie Mena­hem, from the worlds of ani­ma­tion, doc­u­men­tary, cin­e­ma, series, video games and comics, accom­pa­nied 160 high school stu­dents from Com­piègne and stu­dents from UTC and ESAD in Amiens for a day ded­i­cat­ed to the pro­fes­sion of screen­writ­ing and writ­ing. Cre­at­ed in 2023 and “rolled out”, so to speak, at the Uni­ver­si­ty La Rochelle and CY Cer­gy Paris Uni­ver­si­ty, the Screen­writ­ing Cam­pus aims to raise aware­ness among high school and uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents about the screen­writ­ing pro­fes­sion through mas­ter­class­es and writ­ing work­shops led by pro­fes­sion­als. Since 2023, it has brought togeth­er more than 400 stu­dents and high school pupils with 23 screenwriters.

Butterfly 2050, the driving force behind the Campus du Scénario at UTC

“The Screen­writ­ing Cam­pus is an ini­tia­tive of the Euro­pean Screen­writ­ers’ City, direct­ed by Pauline Roca­full and organ­ised joint­ly with the UTC’s Design Depart­ment. This amaz­ing­ly suc­cess­ful “Day” is one of the out­comes of the But­ter­fly 2050 project, 2024 edi­tion, an ini­tia­tive of the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tari­at for Invest­ment (SGPI), which invit­ed 40 stu­dents to par­tic­i­pate in dis­cus­sions about the future by work­ing in teams to cre­ate prospec­tive sce­nar­ios. A for­ward-look­ing sce­nario com­pe­ti­tion was there­fore organ­ised by the SGPI, the Gen­er­al Sec­re­tari­at for Invest­ment, on the ini­tia­tive of Bruno Bonell, Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al, and led by Nathalie Becoulet, train­ing advi­sor. Prof. Claire ROSSI, Pres­i­dent of UTC, imme­di­ate­ly agreed when we pro­posed this day in Sep­tem­ber 2024,” says Emmanuel Cor­bas­son, lec­tur­er and research sci­en­tist in the Mechan­i­cal Engi­neer­ing Depart­ment and head of the Indus­tri­al Design Engi­neer­ing programme.

Screenwriters from widespread horizons converge on UTC

Car­o­line Torel­li rep­re­sents ani­ma­tion writ­ers. She is co-writer on sea­son 6 of Mirac­u­lous: The Adven­tures of Lady­Bug and Cat Noir and on the series Les Gardes Chimères. Rep­re­sent­ing the world of series was Alpha Dial­lo, screen­writer on the series En place. Leslie Mena­hem, rep­re­sent­ing the world of doc­u­men­taries, is a screen­writer for Karam­bo­lage (Arte) and cre­ator of the doc­u­men­tary pod­casts Il était un père and Fréquenter les morts. Pierre-Yves Denon­foux spoke on behalf of video game cre­ators as nar­ra­tive design­er for the video game Note to Myself, which is cur­rent­ly in pro­duc­tion and sched­uled for release in Sep­tem­ber. Final­ly, Pauline Aubry, author of the auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal graph­ic nov­el about ado­les­cence, Les Mutants, com­pletes the picture.

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